Should self-driven cars be programmed to violate traffic laws? AV companies think the answer is yes – and they should decide when and where. (In fact, they’re already doing it.) That complicates their claims about improving street safety.

For a preview of what's to come from AVs, look to San Francisco. As ex-SFMTA CEO @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social explained here, affluent people love Waymos. But they muck up transport networks by blocking streets and obstructing transit. What’s good for individual riders may not be good for the city.

Reading "Chasing New Horizons" and I did not realize that "Faith of the Heart" was the probe's wake up song before Pluto approach. 🖖🏼

one thing 2024 made abundantly clear is that the electorate’s memory is that of a concussed goldfish and while prosecuting this administration is necessary on its own it is very important to be constantly reminding people how awful and corrupt it was

That's what the Nazis did after taking my great grandparents to Aushwitz and abducting my grandmother. My grandmother briefly made it back to the apartment before escaping (eventually to free France), to collect family possessions, jewelry, etc, all taken.

This is not specific to ICE JSYK. When my mother was evicted from our old family home, they helped themselves to our things too. And I hear of people who, when they are taken into police custody, have their personal possessions (ordinary, non-problematic items) lifted from them out of greed.

i love new avatar movie

We’ve all been this “guy”.

A (belated) Merry Christmas from Min and Zero!

There are a lot of things people get wrong about trans women but "making this space welcoming to cis men will make it more welcoming to trans women!" is I think the most wrong and also most common thing that a lot of folks are maddeningly attached to.

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

In conclusion, this should win Best Picture:

I don't know how much it's worth talking about research leadership on this particular site (there is so little tech community here I feel), but this is a perspective I have LONG had (I used to talk about it all the time on twitter). And as a Research VP I witnessed often that junior data folks...

Find out what happened when I was hiking in Scotland and a stranger asked me to justify whether women had the potential to work in tech on our latest episode of Change, Technically: MATH IS FOR GIRLS. 🥰🔥 www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

It's fun to point out the hypocrisy and rank stupidity of white supremacists and we should do so but it's also important to remember that all of their arguments are lies They believe in nothing; they simply have goals, and their goals are to be on top. As such their 'arguments' do not have to have

Once again the idyllic America of days gone by is represented by…a slick Hollywood production, a simulacrum of reality that these people cannot distinguish from actual reality. No different than seeing Main Street USA at Disneyworld and asking sincerely “why towns don’t look like this anymore.”

all these guys just get mind-bendingly lucky and then act like it proves they're the world's most special boy

NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡 NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

“If you care about the bottom line, budgets & taxes, then you should care about urban biking, because it’s a money saver. It’s ironic when so-called fiscal conservatives attack biking, when their efforts just show a lack of understanding of math.” My interview with @modacitylife.com #CityMakingMath

I lost my job and had to give up my health insurance when the premiums exceeded $40,000. But at least I know some of those uppity student loan borrowers will have their wages garnished starting next month.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

The cybertruck lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, spinning its wheels trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

Absolutely hideous to read. And Trump has Republicans convinced he’s pro-life. According to this document, Trump was present and 70 years old when a girl’s newborn was disposed of. To be clear, she’s a victim of sex trafficking. Witness Info First Name: Donald Last Name: Trump Age: 70 1/2

Whereas I have the belief that humanities people should prob encounter the right-wing great books liberal arts humanities-worshipping campuses that make people like JD Vance. Spend a few years in those humanities seminars with classmates disputing whether gay people should live or women should vote

Still crazy that Druckmann is the source of this. If someone like Pedro Pascal cooked me like this you couldn't waterboard it out of me. But I guess a true auteur know the best time to bring it up: unpromted on stage at DICE during what should be a softball fireside chat.

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS. Every damn day. It’s exhausting.

That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?

A frustrated Pedro Pascal asking Neil Druckmann, who was directing Pascal in a Last of Us episode, “do you like art?”

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who thank Muni drivers and monsters.

"Le is one of a handful of Asian women who operate San Francisco buses. Among the roughly 2,500 Muni operators employed by the SFMTA, about 80% are men and 20% are women. While Asian operators make up roughly 43% of the workforce, Asian women account for just 1.7%."

It’s true!

I was looking for the James Marsden "Turning 39... again!", but this'll do.

David Warner of course being best known as Professor Perry in TMNT 2.

Yes I’m definitely 38 years old. Yup.

Man fuck this 😂

We found out about the fire when a customer came in, ordered 3 pints of Caffreys, then - as I handed them to him & asked for payment - said 'do you know the roof's on fire?' The roof was thatched. He walked into a burning pub for a Xmas pint. There'll always be an England.

Everybody is saying that you should hire me to absolutely nail the look of your characters in 2026

Other than Michael Caine, who is the best Scrooge?

My nephew, via FaceTime: "Auntie Terra I got a boomerang for Christmas!" Me: "ok now you need to make sure you don't hit yourself with it, and the easiest way to do that is to throw it and hide behind pop pop, he can't move very fast" I'm a good aunt.

He's making a list He's redacting his list He's improperly redacted his list He's just found a million more files

yes 911, i cut the paper too small

now for the traditional eating of the christmas tree

One more sleep til Christmas!

“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undetectable,” said Sherman Austin. Full story: lataco.com/ice-license-... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

“Isn’t shareholder value worth going bankrupt because you got sick?”

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